December 2015 Blog Posts (85)

Sunedison's Yieldco Shell Game Continues, but has Wall Street Caught On? Dead Cat's Bounce?

SunEdison Sells Maine Wind-Power Plants

Sale, for $209 million, comes as company tries to free up cash to shore up its stock…

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Added by arthur qwenk on December 10, 2015 at 8:30pm — No Comments

The IPCC's poster child for Climate Change - Bangladesh

The IPCC lists Bangladesh as the country most at risk from climate change.  But guess what?  Bangladesh is shifting its electricity generation from expensive imported gas to cheap domestic coal in order to increase its GDP.   “Bangladesh’s short-term economic and political costs resulting from not using its coal for the generation of electricity are far higher than the longer term costs resulting from climate change. This also explains why there are no specific plans for using the more…

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Added by Steve Thurston on December 9, 2015 at 5:30pm — 4 Comments

GERMANY: Renewable Energy Policy “Complete Failure”… Bring On The Dirty Coal Monsters

GERMANY:

Renewable Energy Policy “Complete…
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Added by Eric A. Tuttle on December 9, 2015 at 4:00pm — No Comments

The Wind Tech

                                                           The Wind Tech

 

 

 

By Jim Wiegand

                                                                                                                                                

"I am an employee at a wind farm. I would like to speak with somebody about eagle deaths that I have seen and reported.  Please…

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Added by Jim Wiegand on December 9, 2015 at 3:00pm — 11 Comments

Invest in energy innovation to reduce emissions, prices

Invest in energy innovation to…
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Added by Eric A. Tuttle on December 9, 2015 at 10:00am — No Comments

Will The Scammers make a Comeback with a new Model?

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Added by Eric A. Tuttle on December 8, 2015 at 12:47pm — No Comments

MAINERS YOU HAVE BEEN MISLED BY ANGUS KING ! please take action.

Oil slumps 6 percent to near seven-year low on OPEC inaction, dollar

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Added by Monique Aniel Thurston on December 7, 2015 at 4:30pm — 2 Comments

Smells like Soros: CRES in BDN fails to credit natural gas for Maine's reduction in CO2

Does anyone know where this "Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions" gets their funding?

This outfit that has been running TV commercials, presumably at great expense, touting the fact that Senator Susan Collins supports wind energy, i.e., using her misguided support to legitimize this useless power source.

See:

https://www.youtube.com/user/CitizensFor

Please see their…

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Added by Long Islander on December 7, 2015 at 12:00pm — No Comments

"Electric car sales sputter as Mainers go for SUVs"

"Electric car sales sputter as…

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Added by Eric A. Tuttle on December 6, 2015 at 7:30pm — 6 Comments

A CALL TO ACTION FROM OUR NEW HAMPSHIRE FRIENDS

Below please find a copy of a call to action and alert sent to us from our friends in New Hampshire.  We all need to ask Congress not to fund the wind production tax credit now!



WIND ALERT - Wind Production Tax Credit (PTC) - Can you spare 2 minutes to help us?

Below is an urgent…

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Added by Pineo Girl on December 6, 2015 at 4:04pm — 3 Comments

Forbes: SunEdison a Financial Engineering Frankenstein

Dec 6, 2015

Call them hedge fund hotels or financial engineering Frankensteins, their complexity and leverage are being looked at with fresh eyes by both rank-and-file investors and hedge fund billionaires.…

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Added by Long Islander on December 6, 2015 at 3:30pm — 12 Comments

Are Most of Maine's Scenic Resources Now Considered Crap by the Supreme Court?

There is no doubt that "Unique Circumstances" allowed this beneficial decision for PPDLW to stand.

Are all other wind projects in Maine now on the fast track?

KILL PL-661 . pack BEP with pro scenic quality Maine folks, and get DEP away  from rubber stamping projects?

The Fight Continues unfortunately.

Who is the "Supreme Judge" as to   what is beautiful about each area of this unique state?

Unless the citizens get much more active in the aesthetic…

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Added by arthur qwenk on December 5, 2015 at 10:00am — No Comments

ME law firm Preti Flaherty issues press release on SJC Bowers decision

http://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/maine-court-interprets-wind-energy-law-87042/

Maine court interprets wind energy law

Maine's highest court has issued an opinion interpreting Maine's laws governing wind energy project development. The opinion is noteworthy for its analysis of two areas of Maine wind energy law -- those designed to expedite the…

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Added by Gary Campbell on December 5, 2015 at 8:59am — 1 Comment

Money and Power Drive Obama's Climate Agenda

What the president reportedly hides behind the curtain is his alliances with international green elites, a select group of political and Wall Street cronies, and energy regulatory czars who have orchestrated a CO2 carbon-taxing scheme that would put billions of dollars into their own pockets. A regulatory structure is being assembled through federal agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).…

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Added by Thinklike A. Mountain on December 5, 2015 at 7:26am — No Comments

Donald Trump Video: "Wind is Causing A Lot of Problems"

Start at the 2:00 minute mark. The wind industry can not be happy with Donald Trump. He has had personal experience with fighting two wind projects and as he states in this video "I know a lot about wind". As we know, the more one knows about wind, the less they like it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGEzFbRl-g8

Please send to a friend.

Date of video: 12/3/15

Added by Thinklike A. Mountain on December 4, 2015 at 9:00pm — No Comments

Where Maine’s electricity comes from, in two charts


"Where Maine’s electricity comes from, in two…

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Added by Eric A. Tuttle on December 4, 2015 at 3:01pm — No Comments

BDN and PPH Articles On First Wind/SunEdison Bowers Defeat

Please be sure to read both of these articles on a huge victory for the Maine environment and the average citizen. And a crushing defeat for SunEdison / First Wind.

The Court upheld the Board of Environmental Protection's (BEP's) conclusion that the project's sixteen turbines would have "an unreasonable adverse effect on the scenic character and existing uses related to the scenic character” of nine of the lakes which the State recognizes as "Scenic Resources of State or…

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Added by Long Islander on December 4, 2015 at 1:00am — No Comments

BOWERS WIND PROJECT DEFEATED!!

This morning the Maine Supreme Judicial Court issued its decision denying Champlain Wind LLC's appeal concerning a permit for its Bowers Wind Project in Carroll Plt and Kossuth Twp. Champlain Wind is a subsidiary of Maine's largest wind developer, First Wind. The decision marks the end of a six year process of hearings and appeals which pitted the wind developer against local residents, professional guides, traditional sporting camp owners and loyal visitors to Maine's famed Downeast Lakes…

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Added by Gary Campbell on December 3, 2015 at 3:46pm — 21 Comments

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CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power

 

Click here to read how the Maine ratepayer has been sold down the river by the Angus King cabal.

Maine Center For Public Interest Reporting – Three Part Series: A CRITICAL LOOK AT MAINE’S WIND ACT

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(excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/

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Hannah Pingree on the Maine expedited wind law

Hannah Pingree - Director of Maine's Office of Innovation and the Future

"Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."

https://pinetreewatch.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/

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